Hard Drive Missing Space

Okay-so I just noticed that my hard drive has just 33.85 GB of space available for use.
The drive's capacity (after formatting etc) is 111.35GB
So, finder is telling me that 77.51 GB of hard drive is IN USE-okay, fine & dandy.
Problem is that using OmniDiscSweeper and Disc Inventory both show a max of 48GB IN USE which should leave 63GB available FOR USE, not 33. Both programs include/account for HIDDEN files.
So where is this mysterious 30ish GB of hard drive being used?
Trash has been emptied and even when I manually add up files in finder, I don't find the space either.
Permissions have been verified, the disk itself has been check for errors-nothing.
Sleepimage takes up just one gig so it's not there and it's not in the swapfile either.
There are no extra partitions (which is clear anyway since it shows 111 capacity).
I've searched for an answer all over the web but all I'm seeing is that people suggest looking at the hidden files (which are already accounted for by DiscSweeper) OR that it has to do with the byte conversion (1,000 vs 1,024) but that would only account for a percentage nowhere near 50%.
That's quite a bit of hard drive to be missing. Suggestions? I'd like to have that 30ish gb back.

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
I've used WhatSize to look at hidden files and total files. Maybe try it to see if it pulls anything different. You need to use a version before 4.0 as the vendor crippled the program in demo mode. This one is 3.9: http://www.free-mac-software.com/whatsize/

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